date:Dec 06, 2018
vestments, he added. Each month producers are asked whether now is a good time or bad time to make a large investment in buildings and machinery. Their responses are used to produce a large investment index. In November, that investment index stood at 56, up from 52 in October and 10 points higher than in September of 2018 when the index set a new low of 42.
Producers were also more optimistic regarding their long-term perspective on farmland values, with 50% expecting higher farmland values ov